Young scholars participate in an activity about personality perceptions. They take a personality survey for themselves. Then students take the same survey with their impressions about their partner, and discuss their findings.

Learners participate in a variety of activities to understand statistics. They collect and interpret data. Also students distinguish the difference between a population and a sample. They make inferences and create arguments using data.

In this word jumble worksheet, students unscramble the letters to spell cities in Illinois. Students use the word box to help them spell the 10 cities.

In this word jumble worksheet, students unscramble the letters to spell words associated with the state of Oregon. Students spell 20 words.

For this word jumble worksheet, students unscramble the letters to spell words associated with the state of Vermont. Students spell 20 words.

Develop better vocabulary and dictionary skills while playing this fun dictionary game with students in small groups. Click on the video link to watch the game being played in a classroom. L.9-10.4c References

This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...

These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.

These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.

Test your picture dictionary skills by playing these games!

A learning module that begins with "Maybe Mean Girls' Mental Games Have a Purpose" by Erika Engelhaupt, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...

This article focuses on exercises for teaching compound words including compound word exercises, a list of root words to create many different compound words, links to compound word games, and interactive online games.

View a lesson on using dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meaning of words. Test your skills using Test Mode or Game Mode.

This article explains that rhyming words help children learn to spell. It describes how to play three different rhyming word games: Disappearing Rhyme Man, Rhyme that Word, and Rhyme Hunt.

This article focuses on spelling in the 6th grade including vowel-consonant spelling patterns, spelling study strategies, and links to word lists and spelling games.

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.

Players identify constellations by multiple choice or by typing in the correct name. Two skill levels. Includes links to Fact Monster dictionary, encyclopedia, and atlas entries about constellations.

This site has a simple but direct approach to building your vocabulary. Keeping a special notebook of new words can increase vocabulary, assist memorization, and encourage good study and organization skills. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary

Young scholars will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...

This vocabulary workshop will be helpful to anyone interested in brushing up on their skills. This site features a comprehensive look at root words, prefixes, suffixes and more.

Match the Memory Interactive game where players match a word to either formal or informal language.

A resource that lists vocabulary words for guided writing.

Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...